Whose happy with Jackson Reed this year. Considering new Macarthur school.

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Anonymous wrote:Why is schoolwork easy? Guess the smarter kids will get all A's then and get into better schools. Seems like a win-win if you ask me. Also, to the Maryland comment, we love that JR starts 9am. My kids love to sleep in. I believe the bell is at 7:30 am in Maryland Montgomery County schools. You couldn't pay me to move there!javascript:void(0);

Ugh. Is this what DCPS thinks?! Do you not understand that colleges pay attention to HS’s overall profile? Colleges hate schools that are too easy and where everybody gets As, so they can’t actually distinguish performance.

A school with J-R’s profile makes standardized test scores matter more. It’s good for some kids and bad for others, in terms of what it does to their admissions prospects.

A small group might benefit in admissions. No one benefits in actual learning or college preparation.

Yet another way that DCPS sacrifices education and the achievement of the hardest working students for the sake of optics.

+1 million. And the kids are not prepare and struggle in college. The end goal is not getting easy A’s but being academically prepared for a much higher level playing field.

And the more kids are admitted to colleges where they end up struggling, the fewer admits from the same high school those colleges will take the next years.

Except no one has cited evidence of either of these things—that JR alumni are underprepared for college relative to peers OR that college admissions suffer because of it. If anything, JR’s ED admissions this year suggest that JR has a pretty good reputation with top schools….

Depends on what you call “top schools.”

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Anonymous wrote:Why is schoolwork easy? Guess the smarter kids will get all A's then and get into better schools. Seems like a win-win if you ask me. Also, to the Maryland comment, we love that JR starts 9am. My kids love to sleep in. I believe the bell is at 7:30 am in Maryland Montgomery County schools. You couldn't pay me to move there!javascript:void(0);

Ugh. Is this what DCPS thinks?! Do you not understand that colleges pay attention to HS’s overall profile? Colleges hate schools that are too easy and where everybody gets As, so they can’t actually distinguish performance.

A school with J-R’s profile makes standardized test scores matter more. It’s good for some kids and bad for others, in terms of what it does to their admissions prospects.

A small group might benefit in admissions. No one benefits in actual learning or college preparation.

Yet another way that DCPS sacrifices education and the achievement of the hardest working students for the sake of optics.

+1 million. And the kids are not prepare and struggle in college. The end goal is not getting easy A’s but being academically prepared for a much higher level playing field.

And the more kids are admitted to colleges where they end up struggling, the fewer admits from the same high school those colleges will take the next years.

Except no one has cited evidence of either of these things—that JR alumni are underprepared for college relative to peers OR that college admissions suffer because of it. If anything, JR’s ED admissions this year suggest that JR has a pretty good reputation with top schools….

Depends on what you call “top schools.”

Harvard, Brown, Cornell, Northwestern….

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Is there a list of college acceptances from Jackson Reed each year?

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Anonymous wrote:Why is schoolwork easy? Guess the smarter kids will get all A's then and get into better schools. Seems like a win-win if you ask me. Also, to the Maryland comment, we love that JR starts 9am. My kids love to sleep in. I believe the bell is at 7:30 am in Maryland Montgomery County schools. You couldn't pay me to move there!javascript:void(0);

Ugh. Is this what DCPS thinks?! Do you not understand that colleges pay attention to HS’s overall profile? Colleges hate schools that are too easy and where everybody gets As, so they can’t actually distinguish performance.

A school with J-R’s profile makes standardized test scores matter more. It’s good for some kids and bad for others, in terms of what it does to their admissions prospects.

A small group might benefit in admissions. No one benefits in actual learning or college preparation.

Yet another way that DCPS sacrifices education and the achievement of the hardest working students for the sake of optics.

+1 million. And the kids are not prepare and struggle in college. The end goal is not getting easy A’s but being academically prepared for a much higher level playing field.

And the more kids are admitted to colleges where they end up struggling, the fewer admits from the same high school those colleges will take the next years.

Except no one has cited evidence of either of these things—that JR alumni are underprepared for college relative to peers OR that college admissions suffer because of it. If anything, JR’s ED admissions this year suggest that JR has a pretty good reputation with top schools….

Depends on what you call “top schools.”

Harvard, Brown, Cornell, Northwestern….

Multiple at Cornell, Columbia, Amherst, multiple at Smith, Case Western, Kenyon, Northeastern, Tulane, GW

With multiple kids there - some classes are better than others but I feel that all my kids are getting a solid education. Kids I know who are at college are all doing fine except the engineers and they would struggle anyway! COVID and no true principal last year caused some serious damage but things are better this year.

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Anonymous wrote:Is there a list of college acceptances from Jackson Reed each year?

Last year’s list is in the school profile, on the counseling department website.

There’s an unofficial IG for this year’s seniors, as there has been for the past few years. Like all such accounts, it’s voluntary and thus incomplete.

What they will tell you is what you’ve read here: there is no ceiling on where kids go from JR, and also no floor.

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The mythology that kids who get in to various colleges aren’t prepared or are less prepared than most other kids attending those school is so out of touch. You’re reading the private school forum and have too much FOMO that kids must have to do hours and hours of homework and be in a pressure cooker enviro to be “prepared” for college. That’s just ridiculous. There’s a lot of being developmentally prepared and ready for college by being well rounded and also having a more diverse and inclusive type of high school experience and ability to navigate the world without bubble wrap and hand holding.

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Anonymous wrote:The mythology that kids who get in to various colleges aren’t prepared or are less prepared than most other kids attending those school is so out of touch. You’re reading the private school forum and have too much FOMO that kids must have to do hours and hours of homework and be in a pressure cooker enviro to be “prepared” for college. That’s just ridiculous. There’s a lot of being developmentally prepared and ready for college by being well rounded and also having a more diverse and inclusive type of high school experience and ability to navigate the world without bubble wrap and hand holding.

I've had kids at both JR (when it was Wilson) and a top DC private and you're mistaken on your last point. There is no chaos or fights in private like there are at DCPS but there is also no hand-holding in private. You would be surprised.
There is no safety net or calls home or warnings to the kids if grades drop. Grades are not posted online (no Aspen) so kids very much feel like they're on their own and in the dark. It's very much a sink-or-swim environment.
No late work and no retakes.
DCPS had FAR MORE hand-holding.

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I believe it. Top privates care about results vs. equity.

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Anonymous wrote:I believe it. Top privates care about results vs. equity.

Oh right, I’m sure they let the kids sink or swim when it comes to college admissions.

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Seriously? The grade drops are what - a B vs an A? Totally agree the privates are exponentially more rigorous and give kids insane amounts of work. The big picture “hand holding” is the assumed bought and paid for leg up in the admission to college that parents believe kids deserve for doing a lot more work. If you believe that - fine - but if kids can do Calculus or become fluent in Spanish with having less homework - you’ve just bought into the private school mentality of superiority just for being there and paying for it.

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Anonymous wrote:I believe it. Top privates care about results vs. equity.

Oh right, I’m sure they let the kids sink or swim when it comes to college admissions.

Probably not an issue because of the the clear high expectations.

Not a "F" = 63%, no work "WS" = 50%, "tardy" is actually 5 minutes after the tardy bell, and any missing assignment must be allowed to be completed at any time with an 8% max deduction.

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Anonymous wrote:I believe it. Top privates care about results vs. equity.

Oh right, I’m sure they let the kids sink or swim when it comes to college admissions.

Probably not an issue because of the the clear high expectations.

Not a "F" = 63%, no work "WS" = 50%, "tardy" is actually 5 minutes after the tardy bell, and any missing assignment must be allowed to be completed at any time with an 8% max deduction.

yup. My kid goes to a "big3" private that starts at 8am. If you walk into the kid's ELA class a minute late on a day that an assignment is due, it is dropped by 5%.
8:01 arrival? That 90% is now an 85%. It took my kid one paper to start arriving to school by 7:50 (to allow a buffer zone for whatever might come up).

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Anonymous wrote:I believe it. Top privates care about results vs. equity.

Oh right, I’m sure they let the kids sink or swim when it comes to college admissions.

Probably not an issue because of the the clear high expectations.

Not a "F" = 63%, no work "WS" = 50%, "tardy" is actually 5 minutes after the tardy bell, and any missing assignment must be allowed to be completed at any time with an 8% max deduction.

yup. My kid goes to a "big3" private that starts at 8am. If you walk into the kid's ELA class a minute late on a day that an assignment is due, it is dropped by 5%.
8:01 arrival? That 90% is now an 85%. It took my kid one paper to start arriving to school by 7:50 (to allow a buffer zone for whatever might come up).

But the earlier point was that you’re paying for what you want to be a leg up for a kid at a big three and then get upset that any kids at JR get into good colleges or believe they shouldn’t because they’ve had what your view as an inferior education and throw around claims that kids at JR aren’t prepared for college (with “prepared” being what the big three has sold parents as “the best”) when you really don’t know but you want to feel that your “superior” (bought and paid for) experience essential means your kids are the only ones worthy of select colleges.

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Anonymous wrote:I believe it. Top privates care about results vs. equity.

Oh right, I’m sure they let the kids sink or swim when it comes to college admissions.

Probably not an issue because of the the clear high expectations.

Not a "F" = 63%, no work "WS" = 50%, "tardy" is actually 5 minutes after the tardy bell, and any missing assignment must be allowed to be completed at any time with an 8% max deduction.

yup. My kid goes to a "big3" private that starts at 8am. If you walk into the kid's ELA class a minute late on a day that an assignment is due, it is dropped by 5%.
8:01 arrival? That 90% is now an 85%. It took my kid one paper to start arriving to school by 7:50 (to allow a buffer zone for whatever might come up).

Really? What school?

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Anonymous wrote:I believe it. Top privates care about results vs. equity.

Oh right, I’m sure they let the kids sink or swim when it comes to college admissions.

Probably not an issue because of the the clear high expectations.

Not a "F" = 63%, no work "WS" = 50%, "tardy" is actually 5 minutes after the tardy bell, and any missing assignment must be allowed to be completed at any time with an 8% max deduction.

yup. My kid goes to a "big3" private that starts at 8am. If you walk into the kid's ELA class a minute late on a day that an assignment is due, it is dropped by 5%.
8:01 arrival? That 90% is now an 85%. It took my kid one paper to start arriving to school by 7:50 (to allow a buffer zone for whatever might come up).

But the earlier point was that you’re paying for what you want to be a leg up for a kid at a big three and then get upset that any kids at JR get into good colleges or believe they shouldn’t because they’ve had what your view as an inferior education and throw around claims that kids at JR aren’t prepared for college (with “prepared” being what the big three has sold parents as “the best”) when you really don’t know but you want to feel that your “superior” (bought and paid for) experience essential means your kids are the only ones worthy of select colleges.

DP. No kids at either school. You know you are talking to different people right? Poster above said nothing to this effect.

What he said was kids are held to a higher standard of responsibility and accountability and if they don’t make that standard there are no retry’s, 2nd chances, handholding. They feel the full effects of their actions no matter if they like it or not.

This is a good thing in my opinion. This is how the real works works and real life. Schools should have certain standards and not dilute it or lower it in the name of some social engineering BS in the name of equity which DCPS does if you want to admit it or not.